
A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread
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Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. He considers what the novel's portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data. For Kreilkamp, Egan's novel compellingly combines the psychological realism of the nineteenth-century novel with more recent and transient forms such as the celebrity magazine profile or a PowerPoint presentation to provide a self-reflective diagnosis of the decay and endurance of literature.
Arranged like Egan's novel into A and B sides, this book highlights not only how A Visit from the Goon Squad speaks to our mass-media and digital present but also its page-turning pleasure.
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Ivan Kreilkamp is associate professor in the department of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2018). In addition to his work in such scholarly journals as ELH and Novel, he has also published in such publications as The New Yorker (online), Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Millions, and Senses of Cinema. Less recently he was a pop music critic writing for Spin, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere.Ivan Kreilkamp is professor of English at Indiana University. His books include Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (2018), and he is coeditor of Victorian Studies. He has published pop-music criticism in the Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.
Content
Intro/bonus track: When Art Dematerialized
Side A, track 1: Time's a Goon: From A to B
Side A, track 2: Storage, Preservation, Memory, Recording
Side B, track 3: Failure, Shame, Tragedy, Emptiness
Side B, track 4: Aesthetics, Purity, Gender, Authenticity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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